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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>VHP rejects `varnashrama', seeks end to untouchability </span>

"It has no sanction in the Vedas and dharma sasthras" 
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Alien aggressions could have led to practice of untouchability
Heads of mutts asked to give `manthra deeksha' to all
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Erode: The fifth State Hindu Resurgence Conference organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Grama Koil Poojarigal Peravai has rejected `varnashrama' and sought an end to the practice of untouchability.

Addressing the conference at the CNC College grounds on Sunday, VHP international president Ashok Singhal said untouchability had no sanction in the Vedas and dharma sasthras. Ancient history and mythology had no record on it. Alien aggressions could have led to the practice. He called upon the heads of mutts to give `manthra deeksha' to all without discrimination.

<span style='color:red'>Mr. Ashok Singhal said the VHP was outrightly rejecting `varnashrama dharma,' supposedly written in Manusmrithi, in the interest of consolidating Hindu unity.</span>

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/20/stories/...330400.htm
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RSS National Executive Member Ram Madhav has criticised politicians for ''thriving on caste differences.''  Delivering the keynote address at a function here last evening, at which a 12-volume Malayalam version of the collected works of the Former RSS 'Sarsanghchalak' M S Golwalkar were released, <span style='color:red'>Mr Madhav claimed there was no justification for the caste system. </span>

http://www.asianetglobal.com/asianet/2004/...Id=14&newsId=93
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RSS Chief Sudarshan, who spoke after Dhasal, said, "<span style='color:red'>The Sangh does not believe in caste</span>...We told our people don’t worry about caste, let it be. The feeling of superiority or inferiority should end. Call leaders of all castes and ensure that they have their meals together...We say we all are Hindus. We strive for Hindu consolidation, transcending castes.” "

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/11724.html

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